states was you know on the gold standard as sort of a paper standard during the civil war you know mainly paper money systems come about when when you know the state needs money and that historically usually was a time of war so during the civil war america was off gold and they returned an eight hundred seventy nine to gold standard the money supply after they did that the money supply contract for use in america interesting the the american economy still group now i'm not quite sure given our consumer culture today that would be repeatable today i have my doubts so i think it would be much tougher to do this today but it has been done has been done in britain in one thousand twenty one now i know people will say this has been one hundred two hundred years ago it doesn't apply to all modern society i do believe it will be much harder to go back to some form of hard and stable money today it will be much tougher and today politics are such that nobody wants to do it now not on my watch that's the number one principle of politics these days around the time that lush looked around it's time